Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Acceleration through Measurement and Policy Professor Scott Stern MIT and NBER
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Far too often Well-intentioned approaches often end.in the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Many regional efforts to accelerate through entrepreneurship fail to turn ideas into action, or fizzle out after an initial burst of energy and initiative
How can we grow through accelerating innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems?
MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program System Strategy Stakeholders
Engaging more than 30 regions all over the world
MIT IDE Ecosystem Framework Economic Impact Social Progress IDE Ecosystem I-Cap E-Cap Cluster Based Comparative Advantage Cluster Based Comparative Advantage Foundational Institutions
MIT REAP Strategy Alignment between regional comparative advantage, ecosystem capacity, and specific IDE ecosystem priorities Accelerators Diaspora Networks & Immigration Policy Select Your REAP Strategic Interventions Prizes & Competitions Early-stage Capital Approaches
To align stakeholders and policymakers, need for shared understanding Can we develop meaningful and actionable (and real-time) metrics for IDE ecosystem assessments?
Measuring Entrepreneurial Quality: A Predictive Analytics Approach Business Registrations Digital Signatures of Growth Potential Mapping Growth Outcomes onto Digital Signatures to estimate quality for all firms
Change in the Probability of Growth Has Short Name 248% Firm Named after Founder How do Digital Signatures of Start-Ups Predict Growth? (NB: Prediction NOT Casusal) - 70% Corporation (Not PartnershiporLLC) 405% Trademark in First Year 501% Patent and No Delaware Registration 3,534% No Patent and Delaware Registration 4,470% Both Patent and Delaware Reg. 19,640% Sectoral Controls State Controls Included Included Guzman and Stern, 2016.
A New View of the Skew
Entrepreneurial Quality Statistics EQI Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI) Average estimated quality within a group of start-ups RECPI Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI) The number of startups within a particular region expected to later achieve a growth outcome REAI Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Index (REAI) Estimates the ability of an ecosystem to convert entrepreneurial potential into realized growth events.
Address-Level Visualization of Silicon Valley
The State of American Entrepreneurship, 2015
RECPI / GDP: The State of American Entrepreneurship Over Time Peak of dot- com bubble RECPI / GDP shows a sharp raise in potential during the late 1990 followed by a drop (but NOT a collapse) in 2001 and more moderate increase after the Great Recession. Nowcasted Index tracks closely and documents boom since 2010 Great Recession Guzman and Stern (2016)
Decline in REAI indicates scaling failure for high-quality US start-ups over past 15 years Guzman and Stern (2016)
Entrepreneurial Quality Has a Strong Relationship to Economic Growth
Potential for Real- Time Policy Evaluation: The US EDA i6 Program Relative Percentage Change 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Change in Entrepreneurial Quantity 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 i6 Site Portland (City) No changes in quantity Relative Percentage Change 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Changes in Entrepreneurial Quality 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 i6 Site (Nowcasted) Porltland (Nowcasted) But an upward (noisy) swing upward in quality around i6 site
Potential for European Entrepreneurial Quality Statistics: The Case of Spain
Measurement as a Driver of Policy and Acceleration System Strategy Stakeholders
The Challenge of Empowering Stakeholders for Systems-Level Change IDE Ecosystem-led growth is different from traditional economic development approaches Collaboration across key stakeholders is crucial for collective impact and acceleration at the ecosystem level University Entrepreneur Innovation Ecosystem Stakeholder Model Risk Capital Government Corporate
Shared Metrics and Evaluation Enable Stakeholder-Led Evidence-Based Entrepreneurial Acceleration Setting a Common Agenda Shared Metrics & Evaluation Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Action IDE Ecosystem Acceleration Backbone Support Organization
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Can we leverage advances in measurement and data to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the Euro area?
Thanks!! sstern@mit.edu www.scott-stern.com